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before we ride and drive them, our ex- 

 perience will do for ordinary purposes ; 

 and when one writes a book, it is, after 

 all, perhaps as well to put something in 

 it which may be of use to the common 

 or garden mortal. 



I may as well introduce Frank 

 before we go further, as he may crop 

 up again. He is not yet fifteen, and 

 I think I brought him out the youngest 

 horseman on record. He rode his 

 first pony-race when he was eight, at 

 Kyme, in Lincolnshire. After that I 

 soon apprenticed him to myself, and he 

 had his first mount on the fiat on Eheu 

 at Doncaster, when Throstle won the St. 

 Leger, before he was eleven. He rode 

 his first steeplechase last autumn at 

 Leicester, when he was fourteen, and 

 made all the running for two and a half 

 miles against eleven runners and Ford 



